Life's difficult decisions are rarely black or white, and the bumpy path to virtue is well traveled by both sinners and saints.
Lucy is a typical teenager with the normal problems involving friends, boys, and her mother. Life is pretty good for Lucy—there’s a cute guy who seems interested and she’s being written up in the school blog for her unique style. But jealous friends try to sabotage her new popularity, and before she can get revenge on these girls, Lucy gets into an accident and winds up in a coma. Her guardian angel comes to tell her some hard truths about life and growing up and why only Lucy can save herself. This play attempts to speak to teenagers about the issues that matter including eating disorders, cyber-bullying, and betrayal among friends.
Just a little background information about the playwright.
Monica Michell combines her love of theatre with her commitment to education in the writing of plays for young adult and family audiences. Drawn especially to the power of socially responsible theatre, her plays address issues of bullying, abandonment and moral ambiguity. She has received multiple grants to develop her theatre outreach programs in Central Texas and her plays have won recognition from the Texas Educational Theatre Association's PlayFest, an annual competition for new plays. She is the head of Teacher Education and Certification in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos where she has taught since 1989. She holds an undergraduate degree in theatre from the University of California-Irvine and received her M.F.A. in Creative Drama and Theatre for Youth from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and draws inspiration from the Blanco River flowing just outside her writing studio in Wimberley, Texas.
Essential questions to consider throughout the unit:
To what extent does truth in communication affect relationships?
How does gender affect social pressures?
What are the lasting implications of bullying?
What is the difference between "forgive and remember" and "forgive and forget"?
Life's difficult decisions are rarely black or white, and the bumpy path to virtue is well traveled by both sinners and saints.
Lucy is a typical teenager with the normal problems involving friends, boys, and her mother. Life is pretty good for Lucy—there’s a cute guy who seems interested and she’s being written up in the school blog for her unique style. But jealous friends try to sabotage her new popularity, and before she can get revenge on these girls, Lucy gets into an accident and winds up in a coma. Her guardian angel comes to tell her some hard truths about life and growing up and why only Lucy can save herself. This play attempts to speak to teenagers about the issues that matter including eating disorders, cyber-bullying, and betrayal among friends.
Just a little background information about the playwright.
Monica Michell combines her love of theatre with her commitment to education in the writing of plays for young adult and family audiences. Drawn especially to the power of socially responsible theatre, her plays address issues of bullying, abandonment and moral ambiguity. She has received multiple grants to develop her theatre outreach programs in Central Texas and her plays have won recognition from the Texas Educational Theatre Association's PlayFest, an annual competition for new plays. She is the head of Teacher Education and Certification in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos where she has taught since 1989. She holds an undergraduate degree in theatre from the University of California-Irvine and received her M.F.A. in Creative Drama and Theatre for Youth from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and draws inspiration from the Blanco River flowing just outside her writing studio in Wimberley, Texas.
Essential questions to consider throughout the unit:
To what extent does truth in communication affect relationships?
How does gender affect social pressures?
What are the lasting implications of bullying?
What is the difference between "forgive and remember" and "forgive and forget"?